Monism : Is there Eternal Punishment?

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 328, 23 July 1889, Page 3

Monism : Is there Eternal Punishment?

I stood on the soargirt shore, in the light of the morning sun ; And watched the wild waves sportive, bound shoreward with a run. Capped were their orests with silver spray, tinged with feathery hue of gold. That seemed to me as I mused in thought, a mystic • scene to unfold. There lay the King of Ages, stretched in his earthbound bed, Crowned with the beams of the morning, radiantly o’er spread ; And as on the scene I pondered, the lead line of thought was o ist, As if it would fathom the future, by the lines of the present and past. Whispering o’er the waters, came soothingly saying to me ;. “ Like the tinge of the gold and silver, are the best on life's billowy sea : Same Jn the pure light of nature, joyfully carol along; Others mourn with a dirge-like sorrow—her darkest oaves among." Drown I down, to the depths went reflection, seeking why all should be ; But found it harder to fathom, than the depths of the grand blue sea. Rolling murmured the waters, what thou seekest is to - be fmud; For know ! to the law of the spirit, is neither set limit or bound. - “ "• And he t.hao would fathom Nirvana, must start from the limitless shore Of doubt, speculation, and reason, as he never has reasoned before. Once launched on the crest of her bosom, seekingearnestly, truly aright, May clasp the Qdeen of the Ages in the eternal embrace of delight. Millions of years have intervened, since Mother earth first thrust The germs of conscious life spontaneous from her dust, And to each individual form, the soul of progress gave, And launched its barque upon the crest of life’s terrestial wave. There's not a flower that blooms, or plant that grows, ar blade of grass that springs, ' But by that secret nature knows, mounts Heaven s ethereal wings ; And the smallest.form of conscious life, whate’er that form may i>e",‘ Howe’er entombed in nature’s womb, whether. of land or sea ; : But by that secret nature knows, re-incarnates again, And thus advances, stage by stage, the soul’s progressive plane. Know ! mortal, know, there is no death ; ftU life hut changes form,— What now is conscious reasoning man may onoe have been a worm. '■ The smallest form of Qorisolous life, by death’s grada-

tions riven, Developea oonsoious, reasoning man (erect) and fit for Heaven. - When purified his soul is freed from earth's material bane, And mounts with supernal wings the light of infinj* tude’s domain, Must still progressively advancei ere it can hope to lave. It's questioning, reasoning, nobler self, in pure Nirvana’s wave. And that soul that don't progress, and use the talents Riven, Will return unto tho elements from whouco that soul was riven. They that the face of nature search, and by her laws abide, Will know that true affinities”do all her motions guide. The mists that from the ocean rise, by fragrant winds are spread, Oe’r natures beaming countenanoa their refreshing influence's islxed, By secret paths to ur unknow.unto their source rgtirn, And finding their affinities, to freshei, newer life are born; Deep I deep, in nature’s mind, are her grand secrets hidden, And the King and Queen of Ages sit enthroned on the face of And who, without reason’s consent, accepts of aught upon trust, Degrades the best gift of tub ALL; by allowing his armour to rust ? Then, why should reason’s nobler claim, to faith’s blind sway be given ? Can dogma be the only path that leads the way to Heaven ? The flower of wisdom cannot bloom, on such a puerjle stem, And of all the. gifts that nature's given, reasons the toy al gem. It teaches us that we should act, in accordance with the plan Of The all, as it directs in the development of man. From the smallest form of conscious life, progressive to improve. Till merged into tho consciousness of reasoning, perfect ’ loro. It teaches that, from moral taints, wo may be wholly i free-. t By keeping in remembrance, ere wo act, our respond- ' That ovif thoughts and bad desires, mad passions of the i soul, May be in full subjection held by reason's firm control. When reason is convinced, tho soul should her behests fulfil,

By subjecting to her Influence a full commanding will. Those I these, the guardians of her peace, her noblest percepts far ; To their sweet influence (soul conjoined) Heaven's gates must stand ajar, What but tho fluid of life moves immensity's boundless roll? What are matter and spirit but parts of the infinite whole ? And what the soul, but that exalted principle, which, if moral culture given, Devclopes in the all, Supreme (abstract), in Heaven ? Tho principles of reason teach, If we her precepts hood, They who to unjust passions sow, will reap corruption's Matter io matter, spirit to spirit, is nature's’flrm decree, Kaoh abstract part (of nature's all) joins its affinity I JOBEJB OASDMNT. fin publizhlng the above we do not neeeeHerily endorse the opinions expreuiied,—Ei>.]

Six months ago a woman going hottie from Church in Woodville was waylaid and 1.. decently assaulted by a man who ran away oa hearing gome [eraona riding up the road He waa subsequently arrested, and brought before two juttioos. These wise men, instead of committing him for trial, assumed the r'ght to deal with the case, and sentenced the prisoner to six months' hard labor. He cime out of gaol last Friday, and was immediately re-arrested on a warrant three yeirs old, issued at Well'ngton, charging him with disobeying au order of the Court to support his illegitimate child. After arrest he was brought before Mr G. A. Preece, R.M., and remanded to Wellington.